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Religion
In this religion discussion worksheet, students answer questions about different aspects of religion.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Obama's Cairo Speech Calls for New Beginning With Muslim World
President Obama gave a speech in Cairo, Egypt to the Muslim world asking for more acceptance and peaceful relations between the regions. (June 4, 2009)
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Saudi Aramco World: Keyboard Calligraphy
In a recent exhibition on Ottoman culture held in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk was an unimpressive-looking little 18th-century book, a printed version of a manuscript produced 150 years earlier. Usually a manuscript is more rare than a...
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World Press: Women Work Toward Equality in Muslim Societies
A look at the the different movements and work being done to advance the equality of women in Muslim societies.Actions of organizations such as WISE who have advocated the training of woman as religious guides, organized an international...
Library of Congress
World Digital Library: Historical and Political Background: Mecca and Medina
An article exploring the history of the spread of Islam as the Muslims emigrated from Mecca to Medina.
Library of Congress
World Digital Library: Arabic and Islamic Science
Learn about the influence of the Arab and Islamic world in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and technology in this article.
Library of Congress
World Digital Library: Astronomy: Reaching for the Stars
In this article the contributions of the Islamic world to our knowledge of astronomy is discussed.
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Al bab.com: An Open Door to the Arab World
This English-language site offers information about all aspects of the Arab world, from material culture to human rights. There are also sections on minority populations living in the Arab Middle East (e.g., the Kurds). Site is entirely...
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Saudi Aramco World: Muslim Roots, u.s. Blues
This site explores the link between Muslim traditions and American blues music. Using audio content, pictures, text, and the song ?Levee Camp Holler,? this site examines African Muslim history tied to the history of U.S. Blues.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Medieval Muslim Societies
The resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge of Medieval Muslim Societies.
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New Internationalist Magazine: Muslims: The Facts
Facts and statistical data of Muslim populations around the world. Includes geographical distribution of different groups and sectors.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modern Muslim Women
This Wide Angle video provides an introduction to the four personable female stars of Sweet Talk, a popular television show in the Arab world.
United Nations
Unesco: The Slave Route
An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...
Other
Aligarh Muslim University (India): Active and Passive Continental Margins
Explains what active and passive continental margins are and where they can be found. Includes a world map showing their locations.
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Saudi Aramco World: Rediscovering Arabic Science
For most westerners, and indeed for many Arabs, the spectacular achievements of Arabic language science from the eighth through the 16th centuries come as a startling discovery, as if an unknown continent had suddenly appeared on the...
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World Socialist Web Site: A Journey Through Africa's Civilizations
From the World Socialist Web Site, this is a review of Harvard professor Henry Gates' book, "Wonders of the African World." It includes interesting details of Gates' attempts to piece together a view of precolonial African history. (4...
ibiblio
Ibiblio: The Mediterranean World
This website contains information about the people using the Mediterranean during the Renaissance. Mentions cultural diversity, humanism, economics and port cities. Includes the setting, cultural diversity, and changing order of the...
Other
Anti Discrimination Committee: Facts About Arabs
This site offers facts on Arabs, the Arab world, Arab Americans, Muslims, the Muslim world, and the Middle East. It includes a list of famous Arab Americans and links to relevant lesson plans, an online quiz, and maps.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Somali Muslims in Maine
In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, view the reactions of citizens from Lewiston, Maine as Somali immigrants settle in their community. [9:39]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Key Concepts: Golden Age of Islam
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school or college level world history course. This section assesses students' knowledge about the Golden Age of Islam.
BBC
Bbc: Young in the Arab World Bbc News
Follow a BBC reporter as she visits four contrasting Arab countries to speak with young people about their lives, aspirations, and identity as Arabs today. Stops include Beirut (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt), Manama (Bahrain), and Rabat...
Library of Congress
World Digital Library: Technology and the Representation of the World
An article discussing the tools the Islamic civilization astronomers developed and used to study the stars. Also discussed are the tools used in alchemy and metalworking.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Family and Household
Turn from the typical studies of society's politics, economics, etc. to focus on the way the family unit fits into society in this unit.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Ibn Battuta 1304 1378
Discover some interesting details about the life of this fascinating Muslim leader. Read about his travels as he journeyed around the world and the incredible places he visited. Click on the globes for maps of his journey.
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